Knows Quote by Megan Chance

I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that words can…

— Markus Zusak

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

— Philip Roth

Writing takes too much patience and it takes too much out of you for me to want to attempt it too often.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't touched it,…

— Stephen King

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.

— Ben Schott

I love the structural part of the writing process.

— Kate Morton

It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.

— Carrie Brownstein

Writing is a little box of interest that I take out once in a while.

— Mukul Dev